It is refreshing to hear that you have a 5 year time frame for black belt. Have you ever read about any research as to the average time it takes these days? Such research may be hard to do, but I am thinking 2 to 3 years may be the average, which is too low I think for someone new to the martial arts.
Back when I was with EFC, they made a big deal about making sure your student's knew you were a BLACK BELT SCHOOL and that their goal should be to get a BLACK BELT. Some dojo even had these huge banners saying "We Are a Black Belt School" and the idea was to sell the students into a black belt plan. They even suggested that once a person signs up for the black belt plan, that you put a black belt with there name on it, on the main wall so that they see it all the time. I didn't like that idea very much.
John Lindsey
Oderint, dum metuant-Let them hate, so long as they fear.